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Record 18191

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Sunday 5 December 1920: 'My brain is tired of reading Coleridge. Why do I read Coleridge? It is partly the result of Eliot [i.e. The Sacred Wood] whom I've not read; but L[eonard]. has & reviewed & praised into the bargain.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Nov 1920 and 5 Dec 1920
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Virginia Woolf
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 25 Jan 1882
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: agnostic
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
 n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Title: unknown
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18191  
Source - Print  
  Author: Virginia Woolf
  Editor: Anne Olivier Bell
  Title: The Diary of Virginia Woolf
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1978
  Vol: 2
  Page: 77
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1978), 2, p. 77, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18191, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

Not clear whether text/s read are from either/both Coleridge's poetry or criticism; at p.77 n.2 source ed. notes that 'the first essay in T. S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood opens with the words: "Coleridge was perhaps the greatest of English critics" (ed. also notes that Leonard Woolf's review of Eliot's book appeared in The Athenaeum, 17 December 1920).

 

 

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